Tuesday, March 19, AD 2024 5:48am

Surrender Dorothy!

The importance of this article will scarcely be doubted by any persons, who have duly reflected upon the subject. The militia is the natural defence of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people. The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.

Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution (1833)

 

 

The Babylon Bee gives us the top ten reasons why we should immediately surrender all firearms to the government:

So, you still have guns in your house, huh?

First of all, shame on you. Second of all, we realize you may be slightly hesitant about just turning them all over to the government, so we put together a list of reasons (out of the hundreds of reasons) you should just turn in your guns right now. Read and learn, you bitter clinger! 

1) The government is very trustworthy and would never hurt anyone: Also, they have nukes. Resistance is futile. Just hand ’em over! 

2) With your gun safe empty, you now have a neat place to hide when robbers break into your home: Let your gun safe keep YOU safe! As an added bonus, you can now use your gun safe to store all your surgical masks and vaccination cards! 

3) Instead of shooting clays on Thanksgiving, you can play great games with your family, like Monopoly: Nothing brings a family together like Monopoly!

4) The government needs your guns so they can shoot people trying to sell loose cigarettes: Donate your firearms to the noble cause of fighting the evil forces trying to sell untaxed cigarettes to people who can’t afford a full pack!

5) You can spend the time you used to spend at the gun range educating yourself: With time, maybe you can learn to be less problematic. 

6) The government will donate your guns to a noble cause: Like drug cartels and insurgents in the Middle East. Think of how much good your gun could be doing right now in the government’s hands! 

7) You can rest assured knowing that criminals will turn in their guns too: Criminals always do the right thing when given the chance. 

8) Now you can defend your home with a cool spiked mace and broadsword: Come on—who doesn’t want to do this? Turn in your gun and defend your home like a REAL man. 

9) You’ll be a rich man not having to buy ammo: Aren’t you tired of getting in fights with your wife about how much you spend on guns and ammo? Plus, you’ll have more money to spend on masks! 

Go here to read the rest.  I don’t know Bee.  Seems to me that there are times in American history when an armed population has come in real handy:

 

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David WS
David WS
Tuesday, July 27, AD 2021 3:54am

I used to say: “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws and only police would have guns.” That second part “only police” used to hard to defend, as the thought of America turning into a police state or a state where the police didn’t show up or were defunded seemed so abstract.
No longer.

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Tuesday, July 27, AD 2021 5:17am

In case you had not noticed. You no longer live in a free country. Likely, I committed three federal crimes with those two sentences seven words.

I carry around 24/7/365 my Constitution between my ears. No one can abrogate what it says about my divinely bestowed, unalienable rights, including arms.

They have their mandate. They stole the 2020 elections.

Precisely like their Chinese puppet masters, they have identified the enemy. And, they is we the people.

Foxfier
Admin
Tuesday, July 27, AD 2021 6:49am

When you’re arguing with folks, it can help to demand — when they oppose firearms– why they are so hateful against women and the disabled.

Like the poster says, I’m compensating for being a third of the size of any one of the five guys who wants to take my car.

David WS
David WS
Tuesday, July 27, AD 2021 6:55am

T. Shaw, We still live in a free country but with elites, who have had much success, bent on totalitarianism. And with the Left in control of all the major institutions but Not the majority of People.

It’s a top down revolution and it will fail. In part because there is a Second Amendment. Just it’s idea is a bulwark against tyrants. Keep in mind I’m writing from Massachusetts, our media are liars, things are not as they propagandize, We the People are still here.

David WS
David WS
Tuesday, July 27, AD 2021 8:53am

I think the criminal gun violence that exists in this country is a small price to pay for the security the 2nd gives…

No foreign nation, including China, would ever dare try invading us.

TomD
TomD
Wednesday, July 28, AD 2021 6:01am

Aren’t you tired of getting in fights with your wife about how much you spend on guns and ammo?

Definitely! It’s been a terrible strain on the marriage! So I’ve decided to surrender to my Dorothy and let her buy as much ammo as she wants.

DJH
DJH
Wednesday, July 28, AD 2021 6:39pm

As I stared into the campfire last night at a campground lake known as the 5p rush hour of lake campgrounds, I considered that the reason I was able to do so was because of the nearly 4 million privately, legally owned guns (and, yes, the illegally owned ones too) in our state.
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